Meeting Recap and Sew In This Saturday!

Thank you to all who came to our past meeting!  It was a great turn out, lots of fun, and a new technique learned!

There was lots of quilts shared this time as well!

Terri's Hour Glass Quilt

Lynsey's (First!) Completed Belle Top 

Jen's Wonderland Doll Quilt

Christy's Mini Landscape 

The rest of the quilts are in our Flickr group for you to browse!

Then Pam taught us all about needle turn applique! (She even had fabulous little giveaways!)

Here is a beautiful example that she brought to show us!

We slaved hard at our little circles and some even started making birds!  Thank you to all who took the time to come out and join us!

We also handed out the fabric to the Modern Quilt Guild Challenge!  We will be doing baby quilts (with some doing quilt blocks!)

We will also be having our sew in this Saturday, July 9th!  Please stop by To Quilt n' Sew anytime between 10 and 4!   This is an open sewing time to bring whatever project(s) you are working on and have some fun at the same time!

Location :: To Quilt 'n Sew
3510 Allen Road #102
Bakersfield, CA 93314
(661) 589-8863

June Meeting Recap

We shared quilts!  Surprise!

 Nicci's mermaid quilt!

Corey's Royal Purple Quilt

 Pam's Pinwheel Sampler.

She used P.S I Quilt's quilt-a-long for this quilt (You can find it here.), and then of course jazzed it up with her beautiful appliqued borders.

Then we talked binding.  Corey is showing us her glue technique.

Nancy talked about bias binding!

There was lots of great tips shared!  I personally am excited to bind another quilt just to be able to try all these new things I have learned! ;0)

We also had our first swap!  We swapped mug rugs!  This was so much fun!  They were all so unique, and it was really funny how so many people ended up with the mug rug that was just perfect for them.

Other News

Logo

We are getting a new logo!  Yay!  It so cool!  So be prepared for a new look!

Bring a new friend!

We are starting a new recruitment program.  We want to grow and reach out to everyone who might be interested!  So bring a new friend (or two or three!)  to the next meeting and get a ticket to enter in the drawing for a fun quilt-y treat!

Sew In Potluck

We will also be having a potluck at our next sew in on Saturday June 11th.  So if you are planning to come, please contact Lynn (longarmlynn at aol dot com) to see what is needed!

April Meeting Recap

Thank you to everyone who came to our April meeting!  There were some really wonderful quilts that were shared this month! 

 Pam's amazing Circle of Geese Pillow 

 Lana's Fish Improv Quilt Top

Christiane's Applique Flower Quilt

Christy's mug rug 

(Really, I just love Christy's cute face in this picture. ;0) )

We all had lots of fun playing with the three Accuquilts this meeting!  I think "Accuquilt" was put down on a lot of birthday and Christmas wish lists.

Discussions

Meetings:  We have officially changed our meeting days to the first Wednesday of the month from 6-8 PM at Strawberry Patches.  There will be no meeting during May, although we will have a sew in on Saturday, May 14th.  So our next meeting will be on June 1st.

Officers:  We now have officers!  I think we have a great team going on here. ;0p

President: Terri Harlan

Vice President: Jennifer Sterk

Secretary: Megan Van Sciver

Treasurer: Nicci Pannell

Program Coordinator: Lynn Douglass

Mug Rug Swap:  We are having our first swap!  Anyone who is interested please make a mug rug with the theme of "SUMMER" in mind!  Interpret this any way you like!  Then at our next meeting on June 1st bring your mug rug in a little brown bag, and then everyone who participates will get to take one home!  Have fun and get creative!  

Name Tags:  At our next sew in we will be working on our name tags!  We thought it would be a fun way of expressing our own quilt-y styles and help us to all get to know each other better.  If you don't have a chance to come to the sew in, please feel free to make a name tag at home!  

Please send us an e-mail or leave us a comment if you have any questions!  

Happy quilting!